Re: [oc] Beyond Transmeta...

["Jim Dempsey" <tapedisk@ameritech.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin.J Thompson" <Martin.J.Thompson@trw.com>
To: <cores@opencores.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 2:07 AM
Subject: Re: [oc] Beyond Transmeta...


>
> >> you will need also bigger caches, since you have more fine grained
> >executions,
> >> etc.
> >
> >Not so. There likely would be no cache. A good design could have the
> >entire working set in some phase of computation (transformation).
> >
>
> I haven't followed this thread too closely, but what happens when an
interrupt happens?  Do you have to throw away everything in the pipe and
restart after the interrupt is over?
>

You are viewing the system as a single point of conciousness. Whereas it is
better experssed as a mash of items being processed concurrently. An event
(interrupt) is no different than a carry from an addition. Nothing stops
everything, only behavior changes.

Jim Dempsey




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